slide 1-Spain is a cons. monarchy in which a monarch(king or queen) acts as head of
state within the guidelines of a constitution,the ability to make and pass laws
resides with an elected Parliament, not with the Monarch(king or queen).
slide 2-us is a democracy in witch the supreme power is vested in the people and
exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation
usually involving periodically held free elections
slide 3-how these governments are alike and dislike-we both follow a constitution
democracy gives supreme power to the people while constitutional monarchy
has the parliment have most of the power
Democracy-people elect officials to represent them
constitutional monarchy-next monarch(king)elected by next in line for the
crown they have to be the same kin
Slide 4 -spains cons. was made in 1978 it proclaims Spain to be a social and
democratic state governed by law and declares liberty, justice, equality, and
political pluralism to be the country's foremost values. National sovereignty
resides in the people, from whom all powers of the state emanate. The new
Constitution defines Spain as a parliamentary monarchy, with the king as head
of state and symbol of its unity and permanence. It establishes a bicameral legislature,
the Cortes, and an independent judicial system
slide 5-us cons. was made in March 4, 1789 it proclaims that people have ultimate
power and soverignty and they also had the right to elect thesair
representatives it is still to this day
the out line to our government.it was made so the us wasent ruled by a monarch
(king) becaus that was what every one feared.in addition to the constitution we
added a bill of rights witch was ratified in December 15, 1791 it gives the us
the rights we have today it also states that we have fredom ,liberty ,equality
between each other
slide 6-how the cons. arent alike-the US has a bill of rights
spain is set as a parliamentary monarchy in witch the parlimet makes all
the disitions and monarch is head of state and symbol of its unity and
permanence.
US is set as a democracy in witch the people hold ultimate
soveregnty(power)
spain's constitution establishes a bicameral legislature, the Cortes, and
an independent judicial system
Us'es constitution establishes seperation of power into 3 branches legislative,executive and judicial
and each branch has a different job
slide7- spains econymy-spains econymi at this time is not doing so well it is $1.9
trillion dollars in debt just in begining of the year of 2011
Spain is ranked 17th out of 43 countries in the Europe region and it is the
36th largest economy in the world.
if Eu dosnt help spain and its econymy spain wont make it much longer
slide8-US'es economy isnt doing so good
either it is in debt 11.5 trillion
dollars this yearthe us owes 2.6 trillion dollars to the people that it
borrowed from the irs the rest is owed to forign contrys
us is ranked the tenth larges econymy in the world
slide9-how theyre econimys
are alike and unlike-we both owe a big
debt
but us has a bigger det than spain spains bebt
compared to ours is nothing we owe 10.6 trilion more dollars than spain
us ranked 10th place and spain is ranked in 36th
place whenit comes to their econymis
slide10-Did spain have a
dictator-in fact spain did have a dictator his name was Francisco Franco he use
to be a grat general for spain but when he was accepted to be the new king of
spain. he started showing all the aspects of dictatership when he was chosen
for king
he did not allow fair elections and political
opposition
he even passed a law that made him head of state
for life
but when he died in November 1975, the monarchy
was restored when Prince Juan Carlos became head of state
Slide11-spain back
then- the 1600s was spains golden age it was the super power
in europe
spains wealth and military might was based on all
the gold and silver its Central and South American colonies brought
back then spain was controled by the catholic
church
spain use to own
and mexico until it revolutionized and seperated from spain and in
addition texas sepersted from mexico later joining the us
slide12-spain curently-spain
is part of the europian union
75% of its citezens live in cities
its population is 46 million
spains king is Juan carlos
slide 13-They have highest
number of bars out of all the countries in the EU.
spain is the home of real madrid
Real Madrid is the richest club in the world.
soccer is the most important sport in spain it is like a religeon
the name Spain diverged from the
word Ispania, which means the land of rabbits.
